title: [Society before and after the introduction of psychotropic drugs for therapeutic use].
abstract: In spite of a part of unavoidable subjectivity, it seems that the use of antidepressive, anxiolytic and hypnotic agents has increased over the past years, but with a certain recent stabilization in the consumption of benzodiazepines. A slipping towards the medicalization of problems yet principally social is generally admitted. The following factors are specially considered: the type of request of the person, often dominated by a behaviour of "relieved" people; the medical answers, frequently marked with a preferential if not exclusive rest on the chemical molecule; the financial limitations imposed by the national level, very probable indirect origin of changes in the medical status and role, therefore of distortions concerning the therapeutic relation; a contrario, marketing phenomena involved in large economic challenges. In front of that conflict situation, we must hope for a keeping of the liberty of exercise of the physician, for the benefit of the patient.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Juillet
mesh_terms: D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012931:Social Environment
chemical_list: D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
vernacular_title: La société avant et depuis l'introduction des médicaments psychotropes en thérapeutique.